🏛️ Discovery Point, Dundee

United Kingdom · Europe · 56.46°N, 2.97°W

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Discovery Point, Dundee
RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland, for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, and highly successful, journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition.

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CountryUnited Kingdom
Continent / regionEurope
Coordinates (approx.)56.46°N, 2.97°W · view on map

Discovery Point, Dundee is located in United Kingdom, in Europe.

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